Shearing day is always stressful but exciting! This was the first time I got to measure what a difference once a year shearing creates versus twice a year. The flock was sheared in October and then again recently. I had read some papers that reported that on average sheep will grow a pound of wool more when sheared twice a year. For my flock it turned out to be half a pound per head more on average. The fleeces were so clean and had very little vm in it though. I only had to lightly skirt most of them and some of them not at all. I was able to keep almost all the wool that came off of them!
